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But even if it did, we would still be too profligate with our water.

The one is far more profligate with its people and equipment than the other.

She says, however, that her days of profligate spending are almost over.

He had been profligate with his money and was in debt.

His profligate ways might be altered if he were a better man.

Like his brother, he was profligate with the great family wealth.

Among the practices to be changed are profligate spending on technology.

The region grew used to free water, in profligate supply.

Once again the Commission are being profligate and irresponsible with other people's money.

He was also considered rather profligate, spending half his inheritance while in college.

Only a big change in our profligate way of life, he argues, will do the trick.

Those who have been profligate and do not repent will come to a bad end.

A better approach would be to wean the nation from its profligate use of oil.

Parliament has not been guilty of profligate spending even in recent years.

He would grow bored and return to his profligate life in London.

The morning, with its sunshine and Nature's profligate promise of hope, was no time for this year's news.

It would signal to the world that our days of profligate consumption were at an end.

Calvin states that generosity is important, but one should never be profligate.

At first glance, he wrote, there seemed to be a clear case for the Government's limiting industry's profligate energy use.

The kitchen is also profligate with lemons, but the results are less successful.

No other civilized country has ever engaged in such profligate consumption.

She had once thought him simply vain, profligate, and decadent.

Five would seem too cheap, and 20 would be profligate.

The profligate American had to pay both the towing fee and the fine.

Reality was starting to change Wall Street's profligate ways last year.

I would not like to have you think me a profligate who has to try them all.

Thats why I never understood the word profligate when used in this context.

She clearly considers me to be nothing but a vulgar profligate (gulp).

Then Morton realized that a virgin would be of little use to a debauched profligate like Hamilton.

Deplais's tone said he thought his guest profligate.

Now, the profligate is he who wishes to spread this crimson of conscious joy over everything; to have excitement at every moment; to paint everything red.

Kargh had truly blessed him, chosen him to destroy the renegade murderer and profligate who'd dishonored the Prophet's throne.

According to the records of the Squares Frontagers' Committee, 1815 residents looked out on 'vacant ground, the resort of the idle and profligate'.

Their approach to the Xbox has been incredibly expensive, borderline profligate, purchasing rather than earning marketshare but it's not yet clear that the investment will actually pay off.

But they had difficulty in seeing anything of the luxury-prone, self-centered profligate of rumor in the person of the frighteningly competent, masterful man who led them now.

For a profligate is serious and reckless even in his shortest love; while a Free Lover is cautious and irresponsible even in his longest devotion.

Unfortunately I cannot see Osbourne increasing charges on high users - as the article points out the carbon profligate are the richest people who are dear to his heart.

The best of the four dishes was farfalle Piemontesi - homemade "bowtie" pasta in a creamy Parmesan sauce profligate with porcini mushrooms and sun-dried tomato strips.

One can make a meal of Tuscan polenta, an appetizer of warm, soft polenta embraced by a luscious melted Gorgonzola sauce profligate with sliced, meaty portobello mushrooms.

A profligate who was chronically in need of funds, Mariano could fetch a higher price for the house if he passed off wall decorations, which he knew to be his father's, as originals by the great Goya.

The narrator's boss, an outsize profligate named Buddy Hamstra, gives him the free rein he needs and offers privileged glimpses into the myriad stories that unfold behind the doors on either side of the corridors.

One is John Singleton Copley's 1793 portrait of Richard Codman, a handsome profligate from a rich and socially prominent Boston family who was known for his wit, charm and lavish spending.

Here was his chance in an adventure "profligate in its use of talented people who are not particularly at home in this sort of film," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.

The notable exception is J. J. Catchpole, the endearing profligate whom we meet in an excerpt from Higgins's novel "Balcony of Europe," which was a finalist for the 1972 Booker Prize.

Howard League for Penal Reform director Frances Crook said Mr Clarke was launching into a 'profligate and irresponsible policy which will incite juvenile crime when damaged children emerge from his penal prep-schools'.

In comparison with this seemingly paltry £117m, the recent Scottish Parliament construction costs (an eye-watering £414m) and our old chum the Millennium Dome (finally swallowing £789m worth of public subsidies) seem a tad profligate.

He was adamant that his proposals would not destroy the deterrent value of prisons; on the contrary, the prohibition of all 'riotous amusement' would ensure that they were 'sufficiently irksome and disagreeable, especially to the idle and profligate'.

Years later, he would write bitterly, "On the night of June 25th, 1906, while attending a performance at Madison Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind [by] a crazed profligate whose great wealth was used to besmirch his victim's memory during the series of notorious trials that ensued."